网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 spew
释义 spew
verb[ I or T, + adv/prep ]
uk /spjuː/ us /spjuː/
If something spews liquid or gas, or liquid or gas spews from something, it flows out in large amounts: (使)(液体或气体)喷出,涌出
The volcano spewed a giant cloud of ash, dust, and gases into the air.火山向空中喷出大量的烟灰、尘埃和气体。
The drains spew (out) millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.几百万加仑未经处理的污水从排水管里喷涌而出,倾泻进河里。
Paper came spewing from the computer printer.纸一张张地从打印机里被吐出来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Emitting and ejecting
carbon emissions
discharge
displace
displaced
eject
ejection
ejector
emission
emitter
expel
expulsion
exude
give something off
loose
send
send something out
shed
shedding
toss
unhoused

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Movement of liquids

Phrasal verb


spew (something) up

spew | American Dictionary


spew
verb[ I/T ]
us/spju/
to flow or let out in large amounts:
[ I/T ]The volcano spewed (out) a giant cloud of ash, dust, and gases into the air.

Examples of spew


spew
A withering burst of fire was directed into the wall directly behind them, spewing out thousands of steel fragments.
How and when did our ancestors begin to formulate and spew forth segmented bits of air into meaningful sequences, and what behaviors led to the earliest language (protolanguage)?
They get damaged and litter spews out all over the highway and the pavements.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
They are already worn down by the endless regulations and quota cuts spewing out from this institution and bringing their industry to its knees.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There is congestion in the streets, with clapped-out old buses, lorries and cars spewing filth into the atmosphere which we then have to breathe.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
They have to continue spewing all their garbage into the atmosphere.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The sides of the tanker might have been split by the explosion and all the remaining oil spewed out into the sea.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We are enormously grateful for the briefing, which we will speed-read and spew back out as best we can.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It is not acceptable to spew toxic wastes out of chimney stacks within a few hundred yards of people's homes, schools and playgrounds.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Approximately 2,500 additional regulations have spewed forth from the machinery of government in that time.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
We have certainly suffered too long from what goes on up above, or rather from what is spewed up above.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It may well be that a political bias was not applied after the figures were spewed out from the computer.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I gather that the paper is still spewing out, whatever happens to it.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It has now been repaired and is spewing out more letters from unhappy constituents.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Humourless statisticians have programmed countless computers, which have duly spewed out jargon and indecipherable algebraic equations.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
See all examples of spew
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/22 15:50:25